嫁入王室2個月,梅根口音竟變成標準英音

When a video of the Duchess of Sussex greeting the public surfaced this week, it was confirmed that the duchess had gained a British accent. It’s a subtle difference, but one can detect a hint of the Queen’s English in the duchess’s intonation .

這周公布的蘇塞克斯公爵夫人問候公衆的一個視頻表明，梅根習得了英式口音。雖然只有微小的改變，但我們還是可以從梅根的語調中聽出一點兒標準英語的味道。

“You can hear some sounds changing, yes,” confirms speech and dialect coach John Fleming. “Some examples can be heard in her R sounds at the end of syllables .“

你可以聽出梅根的一些音調變了，的確如此，”演講兼方言教師約翰·弗萊明證實道。“比如從她發某個音節末尾的R音中我們就可以聽出來。”

In recent clips, those Rs are lighter than the typical general American accent. She is also using the British English vowel normally heard in the word ‘thought’ in the phrase ‘We all had a nice day’, in the word ‘all’.”

在最近的幾段視頻剪輯中，梅根在發這樣的R音的時候要比她一貫的美式口音輕一些。她還使用了英式元音，我們通常會在她說‘thought’（認爲）這個詞以及說“we all had a nice day”（我們都度過了愉快的一天）這句話中的‘all’的時候能聽出她使用英式元音。

People changing accents is often criticised as a sign of inauthenticity. Madonna, for example, was ridiculed when she started talking like her former husband Guy Ritchie.

人們改變口音經常會被指責爲不可信的象徵。例如，麥當娜開始像她的前夫蓋伊·裏奇那樣講話的時候就被取笑了。

But dialect coach Pamela Vanderway explains that a change in accent is unavoidable when you start life in a new country.

但是，方言教師帕梅拉·萬德維表示，當你開始在一個新的國家生活的時候，口音的改變是不可避免的。

“It’s absolutely normal for a human being to take on the accent of the people around them when they want to belong to that group.”

“當人們想要融入一個羣體的時候，他們學會周圍人的口音是非常正常的。”

“Accents are one of the ways human beings identify as being part of a group. [In] Meghan’s situation, she is representing the royal family, so she’s part of England. So there’s a particular pull for her to take on that way of speaking [and] she may or may not be taking it on consciously.”

“口音是人們被確定爲某個團體的一份子的一種方式。考慮到梅根的處境，她如今代表的是英國皇室，所以她是英國的一份子。因此有一股特殊的牽引力促使她用這樣的方式講話，而且她也許並非有意爲之。”

Plus, there’s the matter of the duchess being a trained actor. “She likely has had to work in accents before, British or otherwise. This means that her mouth is a little bit more malleable , and so – in the same way that you might pick up a bit of southern US accent on a trip to Georgia – she has picked up some British English sounds after being immersed in the culture and surrounded by various UK accents.”

此外，梅根是一位接受過專業培訓的演員。“她以前可能不得不在工作中講英式口音或其他方言。這意味着她的嘴巴有更強的適應能力，就像你去喬治亞州旅行的時候你可能就會學會點美國南方口音，而她沉浸在各式各樣的英音環境及文化中她也會學會一些英式口音。”

So even if the duchess begins to sound more British, it’s not a question of abandoning her California dialect, but more a willingness to adapt and to belong with her new family.

所以即使梅根的口音聽起來更像英國人，這也不是她拋棄了她的加利福尼亞方言，而是她更願意去適應，去融入她的新家庭。